Feb-04-16 Tradewise Gibraltar (2016) 
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JoeBerylwood: Nakamura is going to have a powerful berlin endgame in Candidates. Looks like his QGD and KID will be great too in addition to his sicilians and englishes.
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| | Feb-03-16 Nakamura vs A Gupta, 2016
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JoeBerylwood: Black's e4 idea was mistimed. Allowing the white LSB to get to c3 where it wanted to be anyway to blunt the power of the opposing B on g7 was a bad idea. From there black seemed aimless. He was in prep until he played Bc2 but then seemed to run out of ideas and was duly ...
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| | Feb-02-16 M Vachier-Lagrave vs L Bruzon Batista, 2016
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JoeBerylwood: A beautiful destruction of the Berlin endgame. Only a true position master such as Carlsen or Kramnik can reliably defend this monstrosity. I smile whenever a weaker GM loses when employing this system, especially in a game they should be attempting to win with black in the ...
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| | Feb-02-16 M Ragger vs Nakamura, 2016
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JoeBerylwood: They were in prep until move 30 at least. Bring on the Fischer Random I say!
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| | Feb-02-16 Grigoriants vs Nakamura, 2016
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JoeBerylwood: A nice techincal win with black. The hardest thing to do is keep the game alive in a must win game when you opponents just wants to make a draw with white. Generally black will just be worse if he wriggles too much. That said, 8.dxc5 just looks odd. If white was looking to ...
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| | Feb-01-16 Nakamura vs R Bellin, 2016
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JoeBerylwood: That makes more sense. Thanks for that.
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| | Jan-31-16 Harikrishna vs A Gupta, 2016
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JoeBerylwood: The lad is coming on strong, Gupta is.
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| | Jan-31-16 M Ly vs R Rapport, 2016
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JoeBerylwood: I love a good Rapport Sicilian. I guess he decided that you need to embrace some opening theory to win and is playing like it.
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| | Jan-31-16 Tata Steel (2016)
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JoeBerylwood: The candidates' minds are elsewhere. They are both struggling today.
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| | Jan-30-16 Nakamura vs M Muzychuk, 2016
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